The Seventy Weeks of Daniel 9
Prof. David Engelsma provides a critical examination of the premillennial interpretation of Daniel 9:24-27, outlining their key assumptions about a literal earthly kingdom, the restoration of national Israel, and the division of the 70 weeks into 490 years. This resource serves as an apologetic against premillennialism from a Reformed perspective, identifying the interpretive problems inherent in their eschatological framework.
I. The Premillennial Interpretation A. What they teach (generally) - They claim that in the near future Jesus will return to set up an earthly kingdom in Palestine for a thousand years. - They teach that the literal nation of Israel will then accept Him and be His special people as they were in the Old Testament. - They derive their name, premillennialists, from their doctrine of a literal millennium, before which the Lord returns (pre means “before;” millennium means “1,000 years” and is...